Bitching Elegantly

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HEATED RIVALRY (2025 -)

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

Connor Storrie as Ilya Rozanov | Heated Rivalry | Season 1 Episode 2

Hollanov + tweets (part 2)

ILYAWEEK DAY 3, favorite quote: heated rivalry, chapter 27

“When our childhood homes are chaotic and dangerous, we learn that the way to stay safe is to always be on alert — hypervigilant. Our nervous system never calms down because it’s constantly on the lookout for the next bomb that is going to explode [...] As the show goes on, we will learn that underneath Ilya’s extremely hard shell is the heart of a squishy teddy bear wrapped in a warm blanket, but it takes YEARS for Shane to see it. When we look at Ilya through the lens of what he learned as he grew up, it makes sense why he behaves the way he does. We can even have empathy for the level of hypervigilance and fear he lives with. I like to lay things out this way because it’s usually a hell of a lot harder to give ourselves that same grace. We have an idea of who we “should” be in our heads, and when we don’t live up to that we assume it’s because we’re a failure, a useless waste of space. None of that is true: we are behaving in ways that make complete sense when we understand how our nervous system was trained to respond to our environment.” — Reading Ilya Rozanov through the lens of trauma.

I’ve got addicted to Buffy the vampire slayer series…

Hunger by Emiliano Ponzi

Kathleen Jennings

ILYA ROZANOV WEEK: DAY SEVEN FREE CHOICE: ILYA ROZANOV IS A WORK OF ART (insp) The Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel (1847) Psyche, Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1786) St. Sebastian, Luca Giordano (1653 –1655) The Pink Dress, Frederic Bazille (1864) Saturn Devouring One of His Sons, Francisco Goya (1819 –1823) Armida in Vain Endeavours with Her Entreaties to Prevent Rinaldo's Departure, Angelica Kauffman (1776) The fisherman and the nymph, Henri Lehmann (1837) Lake Nemi, Seen through Trees, Camille Corot (1843)